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By Naz Solangi KUMB: A woman’s body was recovered from Ali Behr Wah near the shrine of Shahenshah Shabbir within the limits of Kumb police station and was later handed over to her relatives after the completion of a post-mortem examination. Villagers spotted the body and informed the police, who reached the scene, took it into custody and shifted it to Taluka Hospital Kot Diji for medico-legal formalities. After the news spread on social media, the woman’s relatives arrived at the hospital and identified her as Shama Wasan, wife of retired Higher Secondary Headmaster Ghulam Mustafa Wasan, a resident of…
By Akhlaque Ahmed Chandio KAMBER: A ceremony was held at the SSP Office Kamber on the occasion of Police Martyrs’ Day to pay tribute to the brave personnel of the police force who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. The ceremony was organised on the directives of SSP Kamber Shahdadkot Hassan Sardar Ahmed Khan Niazi, where officials paid homage to the martyrs and remembered their sacrifices. SSP Kamber Shahdadkot Hassan Sardar Ahmed Khan Niazi, Deputy Commissioner Kamber Shahdadkot Kamran Mushtaq Sheikh, and Chairman District Council Qamaruddin Gopang laid floral wreaths at the Police Martyrs’ Memorial in Kamber Shahdadkot,…
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) commanding performance in the second phase of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s legislative elections has altered the region’s political balance and placed the party in a strong position to form the next government. The result represents a significant electoral achievement for PML-N, but it also carries a much heavier burden than the celebration of victory. The party now faces the more demanding responsibility of proving that an electoral mandate can be transformed into effective governance, political stability and meaningful improvement in the lives of ordinary citizens. The numbers tell a clear story. PML-N secured 10 of…
By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal In the long chronicle of human affairs, few pursuits have revealed the character of a people more clearly than the search for good governance. Our predecessors, whether the wise administrators of earlier ages or those who laid the foundations of our own constitutional order, understood this truth with a seriousness that still commands reflection. They recognized that the art of governing is not merely a technique of power but a moral undertaking. Authority, they held, is a trust exercised on behalf of the community, to be discharged with restraint, justice, and an eye to the welfare…
By Shakeel Hussain The history of literature is, in many ways, the history of civilization itself. Every age leaves behind a record of its hopes, fears, beliefs and ambitions through the words of its writers. English literature offers one of the clearest examples of this enduring relationship between society and artistic expression. Few transitions illustrate this more powerfully than the movement from the Renaissance to the Puritan Age. Although these two periods differed sharply in outlook, they were not opposites in the simple sense. Rather, they reflected changing priorities within English society, each leaving an enduring legacy that shaped not…
By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi The prolonged closure of the Torkham border has become more than a local dispute; it has evolved into a wider economic and humanitarian challenge affecting traders, transporters, laborers, and communities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Thousands of families in Landi Kotal who depend on cross-border trade have seen their livelihoods disrupted, forcing many to raise their voices against a situation that threatens their economic survival. Yet the impact of the closure extends far beyond one town or a single group of traders. The western border stretches across a vast region, from Bajaur to Waziristan, where several crossing points…
The release of water from India’s Salal Dam has once again brought the fragile politics of shared rivers between India and Pakistan into the spotlight. As rising flows from the Indus river system inundated villages around Sehwan, forcing residents to leave their homes, Pakistan found itself facing a familiar crisis: the arrival of floodwaters followed by emergency measures, political debate and renewed concerns over the management of transboundary rivers. Authorities warned that a surge of nearly 90,000 cusecs could enter Pakistan, raising fears of further damage in communities already vulnerable to the increasingly unpredictable nature of monsoon rains. Although many…
By Atiq Raja Why should a citizen still have to travel hundreds of miles to reach a government office that exists to serve him? Why should a farmer leave his village and spend days navigating administrative corridors to resolve a basic issue? Why should a patient, student, entrepreneur or job seeker face a maze of procedures before accessing services that should be available within easy reach? These questions are not simply about inconvenience. They reflect a deeper challenge facing the state itself: the distance between government and the people it is meant to represent. A country can have ambitious policies,…
